This is why I loath books about entrepreneurs, they are always a disappointment because the really valuable experience would be you being a fly on the wall that can also read mind and observes every mental step the businessman made, and their own reasons, their strategy. The final decision is worthless without a detailed understanding of how someone came up with it and nobody ever put it in a book because books are written in retrospective, idealized, censored and way too short
This sounds nefarious, but the best way to avoid this is to read books about people who built criminal businesses. Investigators, prosecutors, and journalists will dig up extensive details about the perpetrator, including chat logs, online postings, financial records, interviews with associates, friends, and family and more. Because the subject is usually in prison/on the run/dead, they can't hide or influence information, and there's no sugar coating.
As examples, I recently read the book American Kingpin, about the Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht (DPR), and listened to two podcasts, A Death in Cryptoland and Exit Scam, about Gerald Cotten, the founder of a crypto exchange (QuadrigaCX) who 'died' in 2018 and 'lost' the private keys to $200m+ in customer money. Those kinds of stories reveal things you'd never be able to see otherwise, like the fact that Cotten was BHW user
@Murdoch1337, or if you want to be a true fly-on-the-wall, his entire chat history with his second-in-command (https://pastebin.com/nBwMen5t) (see also: https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/).
Despite the criminality, they're far more insightful and motivating than the censored and sugar-coated bios of 'real' entepreneurs.
